Re: Hadith Science


"Abdelkarim Benoît Evans" <kevans@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
The word "science" comes from the Latin "scientitia" and means
"knowledge of something acquired by study". It is only in modern times
that an absolute distinction has been made in academic circles between
the arts (humanities) and the sciences. If English had not been
influenced by Norman French and relied exclusively on Anglo-Saxon words,
we wouldn't need the word "science" in its general meaning. We have a
perfectly good native word: "knowledge".

Comment:-
"DKleinecke", who originally asked about Ulm and science,
is presumably a German.
He should know that the german word for science is "Wissenshaft"
which derives from wissen, knowing.

Hamid S. Aziz

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